Traffic Light System: Green, Yellow, and Red in Consent
The traffic light system uses green, yellow, and red as simple signals for continuing, slowing down or checking in, and stopping during intimate or BDSM activities.
Body Autonomy: Consent, Boundaries, and Control Over Your Body
Body autonomy is the right to make meaningful decisions about one’s own body, including touch, healthcare, sexuality, reproduction, privacy, and physical boundaries.
Embodied Consent: Bodily Awareness, Boundaries, and Sexual Choice
Embodied consent combines bodily awareness with clear, voluntary communication, helping people notice comfort, discomfort, desire, uncertainty, and changing boundaries.
Sensory Sensitivity in Intimacy: Touch, Comfort, and Consent
Sensory sensitivity in intimacy describes how touch, sound, light, smell, texture, and other sensory input can affect comfort, arousal, boundaries, and sexual experiences.
Consent Literacy: Boundaries, Communication, and Sexual Autonomy
Consent literacy is the ability to understand, communicate, recognize, and apply consent, boundaries, capacity, and voluntary agreement in sexual and intimate situations.
Sexual Boundary Violation: Consent, Limits, and Sexual Autonomy
A sexual boundary violation occurs when someone crosses, pressures, or ignores another person’s limits involving sexual activity, touch, privacy, or communication.
Intimacy Negotiation: Discussing Needs, Boundaries, and Agreements
Intimacy negotiation is the process of discussing and agreeing on emotional, physical, sexual, relational, and privacy needs within an intimate relationship.
Boundary Testing: Recognizing Respectful and Manipulative Behavior
Boundary testing involves discovering how firm another person’s physical, emotional, sexual, digital, or professional limits are.
Sexual Refusal: Meaning, Communication, and Personal Boundaries
Sexual refusal is the communication that a person does not want to begin, continue, or participate in a particular sexual activity.
Boundary Setting: Defining and Communicating Personal Limits
Boundary setting is the process of identifying, communicating, and maintaining personal limits in relationships, intimacy, privacy, and everyday life.